Britain is paralysed with 50,000 BA passengers stranded, hundreds of schools shut and dangerous icy roads on 'Black Ice Monday' - after lows of -12.2C overnight with WORSE still to come

Britain faces a chaotic 'Black Monday' with more snow due and swathes of treacherous ice on the roads as temperatures dropped to -8C. Cars were abandoned and some suffered crashes as the UK's road network ground to a halt while thousands spent the night at Heathrow, Birmingham, Stansted and Luton airports after flights were delayed or cancelled. Michael Owen's Bentley was damaged today (bottom image) after he parked under a tree only for the branches to collapse on top because of the weight of snow. Police in Cheshire published a photograph of a badly damaged BMW 3 Series (above) that crashed overnight and said: 'Current weather conditions make driving tricky.. but if you drive extremely poorly this is what happens'.